Histories from The Old Cemetery:
The Ancestry of Sarah Elizabeth Linekin
The following extract from a work by Janet Ireland Delorey appears here with her kind permission. It may not be republished or reproduced, in whole or in part, without her express consent.
Histories from The Old Cemetery: The Ancestry of Sarah Elizabeth Linekin
by Janet Ireland Delorey
The Family of Zebedee Linnekin
A Memorial, dated 21 August 1801, stated that Zebedee had “three sons,” only two of whom have been positively identified.(172) It is believed that Daniel Linnekin, who appeared at Union, Maine by 1816, is the unidentified son. Daniel was born around 1795, he cannot be identified with any Linnekin family in Maine, either in the 1800 or 1810 census, his family was “consumptively inclined”(173) and at least one of Zebedee’s grandchildren died of consumption.(174) It is curious that not one of the daughters of Zebedee’s first marriage can be followed in New Brunswick as is the fact that his wife, Susanna, was not only mentioned in her father’s will but received the same legacy as her siblings. Since her father referred to his son Benjamin as “if living” and did not apply that term to Susanne, he obviously was aware that she was alive.
Many interpretations can be made of Zebedee’s statement that he was “anxiously solicitous to settle [his three sons] near him, lest they should be inclined to quit the Country, and Settle in the United States where they have some relations residing...”(175) It raises the possibility that Susanna might have returned to the United States, accompanied by her daughters, to have her last child and that she died in childbirth or shortly thereafter.
Children (LINNEKIN) of Zebedee(3) and Susanna (Linnekin) the first five identified from a survey taken in May or June 1784:(176)
i. MARY(4) LINNEKIN, over age 10 in 1784.
ii. BENJAMIN(4) LINNEKIN, over age 10 in 1784. Benjamin, with his father Zebedee and brother William were on a List of Jurors for the parish of St. Davids dated 1808.(177) He was dead by 26 September 1818 when his father, Zebedee, was named “administrator of the estate of Benjamin Linniken, late of the Parish of Saint David.”(178)
iii. MARTHA(4) LINNEKIN, under age 10 in 1784.
iv. SARAH(4) LINNEKIN, under age 10 in 1784.
v. JENNET(4) LINNEKIN, under age 10 in 1784.
vi. WILLIAM(4) LINNEKIN, born at St. David’s in 1791. He described himself, in a Memorial dated 26 March 1821, as a British Subject born in the Parish of St. David’s, County of Charlotte, aged 30 years, a married man. As of the date of the Memorial, he had never drawn land in any of his Majesty’s Provinces of North America and asked to obtain a grant of the reserve land, situated on the northeast side of the leading road, from St. Andrews to Frederickton.(179) William, with his father Zebedee and brother Benjamin were on a List of Jurors dated 1808(180) and, with Zebedee, William appeared on a tax list for 1822 of the parish of St. David and, without Zebedee, on a list for 1831, filed 12 April 1832.(181)
Although his Memorial of 26 March 1821 stated that he had four children, only one has been identified.
Children (LINNEKIN) of William(4) and unknown wife:(182)
1. ESTHER VIZZIE(5) LINNEKIN, baptized at St. David, New Brunswick on 16 July 1809.
vii. DANIEL(4) LINNEKIN, probably born at St. Davids in 1793/4 [see following]
Children (LINNEKIN) of Zebedee(3) and Hannah (Homans):
viii. PRISCILLA(4) LINNEKIN was born 12 May 1807. She was married at St. David’s on 15 November 1827, by Rev. Skiffington Thompson, to JACOB LUDWIG REED who was born at St. David’s on 13 September 1805, son of Michael and Catherine (Ludwig) Reed.(183) The relationship of Priscilla is not only based on the fact that there was only one Linniken family when she married at St. David’s in 1827 but that Hannah Linikin (sic) requested, on 10 December 1855, that her “government allowance for the present year be sent by Jacob Reed.”(184)
Children (REED) of Jacob Ludwig and Priscilla(4) (Linnekin), born at St. David’s:(185)
1. MICHAEL(5) REED, born 14 March 1829.
2. ELIZABETH ANN(5) REED, born 17 December 1830; died 28 September 1835.
3. JOHN(5) REED, born 23 December 1832.
4. GEORGE W.(5) REED, born 25 December 1834; married by the Rev. William Rideout at St. David’s on 4 June 1859 to ELIZA WALKER. Four children - reside in Minnesota.
5. EDWARD(5) REED, born 11 June 1837.
6. HANNAH(5) REED, born 18 March 1839; married in May 1865 JOHN LINDSEY.
7. JACOB(5) REED, born 28 May 1841.
8. MARY(5) REED, born 19 March 1843.
ix. ANN(4) LINNEKIN, born around 1811 [age 40 in 1851 census]; married JOSEPH HILL who was age 48 in 1851 census, born in New Brunswick and farmer, proprietor. Her mother, Hannah Liniken (sic) was enumerated within this household.
Children (HILL) of Joseph and Ann(4) (Linnekin) from census data of 1851:
1. SARAH(5) HILL, age 21 in 1851.
2. PRISCILLA(5) HILL, age 19 in 1851.
3. DANIEL(5) HILL, age 17 in 1851.
4. MARIA(5) HILL, age 15 in 1851.
5. LUCY(5) HILL, age 13 in 1851.
6. MARGARET(5) HILL, age 11 in 1851.
7. STEPHEN(5) HILL, age 9 in 1851.
8. MARY E.(5) HILL, age 7 in 1851.
9. STILLMAN(5) HILL, age 4 in 1851.
10. EDWARD(5) HILL, age 2 in 1851.
x. ABNER THURSTON(4) LINNEKIN is included on the basis of the death record of his daughter, Delilah Ann, who was born around 1830 in New Brunswick. From the same death record the given name of his wife is shown as LUCRETIA.(186) For whatever reason, Abner, his wife and their son sought and were granted a change of name in 1856: Abner Thurston Linniken, of Malden, to Abner Thurston Linniken Weston; Lucretia Linniken, of Malden, his wife, name changed to Lucretia Linniken Weston; Harrison Sargent Linniken of Malden, their son, name changed to Harrison Sargent Linniken Weston.(187)
Known children of Abner(4) Linnekin/Weston and Lucretia (-):
1. DELILAH ANN(5) LINNEKIN, born at New Brunswick around 1830, died of consumption at Roxbury, Massachusetts on 10 July 1849, age 19. (188)
2. MARY E.(5) LINNEKIN, born in Maine in January 1837, died of dropsy at Roxbury, Massachusetts on 3 May 1847. (189)
3. HARRISON SARGENT(5) LINNEKIN, of Malden in 1856 when name was changed to Harrison Sargent Linniken Weston.(190)
Footnotes:
125) “New Ireland, Men In Pursuit of a Forlorn Hope,” Maine Historical Society Quarterly, [Fall 1979] 19:2:73ff.
126) Record Office, London, England.
127) Wilbur H. Siebert, The Exodus of the Loyalists from Penobscot to Passamaquoddy, [Columbus, 1914], 220.
128) Provincial Archives of New Brunswick [hereinafter PANB] # S31-P40.
129) Deposition of Hannah Linniken for widow’s pension, PANB.
130) Rev. John Murray’s Book of Records, 1766-1789 in possession of the Maine Historical Society.
131) Greene, Boothbay Families, 103-4.
132) Lincoln County Probate, 7:184-186.
133) Deposition of Hannah Linniken for widow’s pension, PANB.
134) “The New Brunswick census of 1851 Charlotte County,” typescript, 1:255, edited by Robert F. Fellows, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.
135) Marblehead MA VRs., 1:264.
136) Communicated to the author on 27 March 1986 by James Skoglund of St. George, Maine.
137) Lincoln County Deeds, 12:18
138) Knox County Deeds, 6:575.
139) Lincoln County Court of Common Pleas.
140) Albert J. Smalley, Mayflower Descendants of St. George Maine through Joshua and Keturah Hopkins Smalley, private publication.
141) Interpretation provided by Lynn Kaufman of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, a professional graphoanalyst.
142) Cyrus Eaton, Annals of the Town of Warren, [Hallowell, 1877], 171.
143) ibid.
144) Correspondence from James Skoglund of St. George, Maine to the author.
145) Lincoln County Deeds, 12:18.
146) Lincoln County Court of Common Pleas.
147) Documentary History of the State of Maine, 12:166-167.
148) These were a class of privateers, generally large open boats with sails and sweeps, manned by some six or eight armed men - Cyrus Eaton, History of Thomaston, Rockland, and South Thomaston, Maine,1[Hallowell ME, 1865], 143.
149) John Long, a local Tory who resided at Cushing, originally came from Martha’s Vineyard. As a Tory, he was a daring and troublesome adventurer, known and feared both by sea and land, difficult to capture and hard to keep when captured (ibid., 142). He also acted as a pilot for the British and, in particular, assisted them in the 1779 burning of Megunticoook Harbor Village (Reuel Robinson, History of Camden and Rockport, Maine, [Camden, 1907], 62-63).
150) Eaton, History of Tomaston, 1:144.
151) History of Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell, 687.
152) PANB, #S31-P40.
153) The Transcripts of Loyalists Claims at the New York Public Library, 14:376.
154) Correspondence from James Skoglund of St. George, Maine to the author.
155) Transcripts of the Loyalists Claims, Volume 14, at New York Public Library.
156) PANB.
157) Wilbur H. Siebert, The Exodus Of The Loyalists, [Columbus, Ohio, 1914], 23.
158) History of Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell, 687.
159) Record Office, London, England.
160) Siebert, Exodus of the Loyalists, 22.
161) ibid.
162) PANB.
163) PANB.
164) PANB.
165) PANB..#F1040.
166) PANB. #F1041.
167) PANB. #F1042.
168) PANB. #S31-P40.
169) PANB.
170) ibid.
171) Family History Library [FHL] at Salt Lake City, Utah #846751.
172) PANB File F1042.
173) Civil War papers of William Linekin, son of Daniel, Disability Discharge #303.
174) Death record of Delilah Ann Linnekin, daughter of Abner Thurston Linnekin.
175) PANB, File F1042.
176) PANB.
177) PANB.
178) PANB, #RS63.
179) PANB, #RS108.
180) PANB.
181) FHL #846751.
182) McColl Methodist Church Baptisms 1794-1848.
183) Ludwig Genealogy, privately printed, 76.
184) Widow’s pension file, PANB.
185) Ludwig Genealogy, 76-77.
186) Death record from Roxbury, Massachusetts, City of Boston vital records.
187) Probate Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, File #36465.
188) Death record from Roxbury, Massachusetts, city of Boston vital records.
189) ibid.
190) Another change of name occurred in 1845 when Samuel Linikin of Cambridge changed his name to Samuel L. Willard. It is uncertain if he is the same Samuel Willard, age 23 and born in Maine, who appeared in the 1850 Federal Census of Lynn [Somerville] Massachusetts and whose household included Dorothy Linnekin, age 65, born in Maine. It suggests that Dorothy was the mother of Samuel and, that her maiden name was Willard. This is suggested, not only by the change of name, but by the appearance of a Willard Linnekin, age 55, in the 1870 Federal census of Appleton, Maine. Also at Cambridge at that time was Jane T. Lenakin of Cambridge who filed intentioins of marriage on 13 October 1844 with William T. Briant of Charlestown (Cambridge MA VRs., 2:691). How these relate, if at all, to this family is not known.
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